Spain in our hearts
Subtitle: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
By: Adam Hochschild
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780547973180; 9780544947238; 9780547974538
Subjects: Spanischer Bürgerkrieg; 20160531 NEW LIST; Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade; Spain. Ejército Popular de la República. Abraham Lincoln Battalion; Civil War (Spain : 1936-1939) fast (OCoLC)fst01352321; Kombattant; Military participation; Amerikaner; American; Americans; American Participation; Spain; History
Description: For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world, as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government fight off a fascist uprising led by Francisco Franco and aided by Hitler and Mussolini. Today we're accustomed to remembering the war through Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and Robert Capa's photographs. But Adam Hochschild has discovered some less familiar yet compelling characters who reveal the full tragedy and importance of the war: a fiery nineteen-year-old Kentucky woman who went to wartime Spain on her honeymoon, a Swarthmore College senior who was the first American casualty in the battle for Madrid, a pair of fiercely partisan, rivalrous New York Times reporters who covered the war from opposites sides, and a swashbuckling Texas oilman with Nazi sympathies who sold Franco almost all his oil -- at reduced prices, and on credit. It was in many ways the opening battle of World War II, and we still have much to learn from it.

For three crucial years in the 1930s the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world, as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government fight off a fascist uprising led by Francisco Franco and aided by Hitler and Mussolini. It was in many ways the opening battle of World War II, and we still have much to learn from it. Hochschild tells stories of ordinary people drawn into the conflict; provides a history of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade; and shows how the war was perceived in the United States through a pair of rival New York Times reporters, one sympathetic to Franco's Nationalist cause and the other to the Republican cause.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 410-419) and index.
Table of contents: title: Far from home; title: Chasing moneychangers from the temple; title: Promised land, black wings; title: "Those who do not think as we do"; title: A new heaven and Earth; title: "I will destroy Madrid"; title: "Don't try to catch me"; title: Rifles from the 1860s; title: Over the mountains; title: Civil War at the 'Times'; title: The man who loved dictators; title: Devil's bargain; title: "I don't think I would write about that if I were you"; title: "As good a method of getting married as any other"; title: Texaco goes to war; title: "In my book you'll be an American"; title: "A letter to my Novia"; title: "Only a few grains of sand left in the hourglass"; title: At the river's edge; title: A change of heart?; title: Gambling for time; title: The taste of tears; title: Kaddish.